31 5 / 2012
Honour student who works two jobs to support her siblings after her parents split up and left town is put in JAIL for missing school due to exhaustion
- Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school
- Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’ divorce
- Has been taking advanced placement and college courses in addition to jobs and missed school due to exhaustion
- Spent the night in jail for truancy
Petition for the decision to be overturned here
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31 5 / 2012
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
— Carl Jung
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31 5 / 2012
JCPenney is featuring a same-sex couple in its Fathers’ Day ad, following One Million Moms’ failed boycott of the store for bringing on Ellen DeGeneres.
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24 5 / 2012
Fighting tigers only makes them stronger and hungrier.
People often try to fight anxiety and get rid of anxiety and avoid anxiety. Not only does that create more anxiety, but there’s nothing wrong with it in the first place. It’s ok to feel anxious. It’s ok to feel uncomfortable. It’s ok to be uncertain. There’s nothing to avoid or to fight. In fact, learning to embrace those can take you to healthy places and help you do things you’ve always dreamed of.
If you learn to ride a tiger, it can take you places. If you try to fight a tiger, the only place you’ll end up is in its stomach.
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24 5 / 2012
This is so important because we often focus on a doubt and get anxious about it and try to be certain about it and try to control it. That becomes a barrier to action.
We make our actions dependent on absurd impossibilities like certainty.
It’s okay to have doubts. It’s okay to be anxious. They’re normal. Accept them, and then act according to your values anyway. It helps so much to put time into articulating what actions you value so that you know when you have a doubt, or you get anxious, you’re just going to follow through on your values anyway.
Doubts are storm clouds passing over. Let them pass. Chase them, and you’ll always be under them.
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